In a New York streetwear scene dominated by wordmarks, Kommerce is building heavyweight hoodies and graphic tees as ...
According to the Tohoku region’s Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, kokeshi (koh-keh-shee) originated in the late Edo period, which ended in 1868, in the area’s hot-spring villages, where ...
The serialized origin of “Sisters in Yellow” gives the story a spontaneous authenticity and whimsy, yet also feels ...
Framed woodblock prints line the dimly lit walls of the new “Printed Dreams: Edo Woodblock Prints to Modern Manga” exhibition at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. Moments captured long ago by ...
Bearing marks of a censure's stamp and a government star, a few letters on view at Harvard's Houghton Library recall the vast injustice of Japanese internment during WWII — and reverberate now.
A shared obsession with tentacles is no longer the only thing tying together cult horror writer HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos and the artistic universe of ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai. In the ...
Look out too for works by London-based artist Nana Shiomi, whose 2001 print, Hokusai’s Wave – Happy Carp is displayed alongside the very woodblocks Shiomi used to produce it, enabling visitors to gain ...
The common thread running through this area of ​​the Japanese capital is its over 180 bookstores and other businesses related ...
The Portland Japanese Garden is debuting its first exhibition of the year this weekend and featuring artists from Portland, ...